the project

previously i conducted a project which involved invoking the memory of a person through a phrase posted in areas around the university i attend which could have meaning to strangers that come across it. i wondered if i could apply this concept to the wider community and how bonds are formed between strangers. from this thought, a keyword that popped into my mind, and that word was ‘mutual’. 

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auckland is quite a small place in terms of connections, often times I meet people for the first time and come to find that we share mutual friends. 

this triggered a thought that although i only have a certain amount of friends in my bubble, i’m linked to a wider society of people that i have no knowledge of in this moment of time. i became a human link, for friends who have met through me, so i could also serve as an example of a social conduit, and so can everyone who's ever made a friend.

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this blog will become a record of how strangers meet through a mutual friend acting as someone who speaks between, an interlocutor, the link, the social conduit. this blog is created with the idea of becoming a public album of stories which are available to read for strangers, but have special value for the individuals who were a part of the stories posted. read and share, maybe you'll even find stories similar to yours.

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this project will start off shared with my immediate circle of connections but intended to branch off as my connections decide to participate with their own connections,

thus becoming a social conduit in itself, an active event which follows the family tree of connections from mutual to strangers.